This makes transportation quick and easy and reduces weight compared to a more traditional, or even Dobsonian, telescope. This build is impressive not just from having an extremely portable ...

which is why [Vladimir Atehortúa] created DobsonianDSC as a low-cost DIY solution. As the name suggests, this project is based around a Dobsonian-style telescope: Newtonian tube with simple ...

Ordinary citizens could build these scopes themselves ... Orion and other telescope makers have brought mass-production quality control to the Dobsonian form-factor. And Orion retains a little ...